2015 Integrated Live Fire Exercise

08-28-15, 04:27 PM

fireftr18 · 08-28-15, 04:40 PM

Cool.
I have to admit, when you wrote "live fire," I was thinking, "fire."

08-28-15, 04:56 PM

Maybe because you're... a fire fighter?

Oberon · 08-28-15, 07:15 PM

I take it these are from the exercise from last week?
Very nice, and a pointed message to a certain northern neighbour.

Honestly, I don't think it'll be too long before the ROK is capable of holding off the DPRK by themselves, if they're not already at that point.
Then the mission of the US becomes defending the north from the ROK, not that it isn't already partially that anyway.

08-28-15, 07:21 PM

Well that was an arranged show of force, it is meant to look impressive, but I too think South Korea would be very able to hold off NK... I mean come on... they have quite old and cheap stuff and in the end not enough firepower.

Just hope we won't ever find out. No one needs that war... who knows what fat boy would do with hiss red buttons if the poo flinging becomes pointless...

August · 08-28-15, 08:20 PM

Conventionally speaking it's the old debate between the south's quality and the north's quantity but I don't think it'd stay conventional for very long. The north would light one off for sure the minute they started loosing the war.

Oberon · 08-29-15, 05:51 AM

The North would definitely use nuclear weaponry as it started losing, but delivery is the biggest problem for the DPRK at the moment. They have, apparently, managed to fit a nuclear warhead to a missile...but the warhead breaks up on re-entry, so it's pretty useless.
I'm not sure if they have actually managed to fit nuclear warheads to intermediate and short range missiles yet, you would have thought that if they had that they would make a show of force of this, to prove that they can strike Japan and the South with nuclear weapons at leisure.
But, honestly, if they DPRK attacked the ROK conventionally, without US help I'd say that they'd take Seoul and then stall out somewhere around Wonju. The ROK would win air superiority pretty easily and just shred any armoured column or infantry position that showed itself.
With the help of the US...I think that the DPRK would be lucky to get as far as Seoul. I mean, getting across the DMZ and through the killzones that have been carefully crafted over the past sixty years is going to destroy a large bulk of the DPRKs forces, and that's before US rapid redeployment reinforcements start streaming in. It would be a bloodbath for the North Koreans, and the Kim dynasty would not survive it, someone in the military would Tom Clancy very quickly and sign a peace treaty.

Jimbuna · 08-29-15, 07:22 AM

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August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Conventionally speaking it's the old debate between the south's quality and the north's quantity but I don't think it'd stay conventional for very long. The north would light one off for sure the minute they started loosing the war. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

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08-28-15, 04:56 PM	#3
Nippelspanner Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Maybe because you're... a fire fighter?

08-28-15, 07:15 PM	#4
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	I take it these are from the exercise from last week? Very nice, and a pointed message to a certain northern neighbour. Honestly, I don't think it'll be too long before the ROK is capable of holding off the DPRK by themselves, if they're not already at that point. Then the mission of the US becomes defending the north from the ROK, not that it isn't already partially that anyway.

08-28-15, 07:21 PM	#5
Nippelspanner Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Well that was an arranged show of force, it is meant to look impressive, but I too think South Korea would be very able to hold off NK... I mean come on... they have quite old and cheap stuff and in the end not enough firepower. Just hope we won't ever find out. No one needs that war... who knows what fat boy would do with hiss red buttons if the poo flinging becomes pointless...

08-29-15, 05:51 AM	#7
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	The North would definitely use nuclear weaponry as it started losing, but delivery is the biggest problem for the DPRK at the moment. They have, apparently, managed to fit a nuclear warhead to a missile...but the warhead breaks up on re-entry, so it's pretty useless. I'm not sure if they have actually managed to fit nuclear warheads to intermediate and short range missiles yet, you would have thought that if they had that they would make a show of force of this, to prove that they can strike Japan and the South with nuclear weapons at leisure. But, honestly, if they DPRK attacked the ROK conventionally, without US help I'd say that they'd take Seoul and then stall out somewhere around Wonju. The ROK would win air superiority pretty easily and just shred any armoured column or infantry position that showed itself. With the help of the US...I think that the DPRK would be lucky to get as far as Seoul. I mean, getting across the DMZ and through the killzones that have been carefully crafted over the past sixty years is going to destroy a large bulk of the DPRKs forces, and that's before US rapid redeployment reinforcements start streaming in. It would be a bloodbath for the North Koreans, and the Kim dynasty would not survive it, someone in the military would Tom Clancy very quickly and sign a peace treaty.